Foolhardy

 

 

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Self-confidence is the key to success, so the adage goes. But what happens when it would become too much?

In our scrutinizing eyes, we see opinions posted on social media sites intended to create “noise” even if these are ungrounded. There are those who post offensive words to become famous.

The present media landscape is increasingly saturated with the need for fame and celebrity status. We are living in a cultural moment in which ostensibly anyone can achieve sudden fame via [Tiktok and Facebook] (Greenwood, 2022).

While the allure of fame is certainly not a new phenomenon, the ubiquity and perceived accessibility of fame seems to give a false sense of self-confidence.

Then, with the number of “likes” and followers, one can then feign the feeling of being famous.

This is when the person must be careful on treading the fame ground. Mclennan (2022) wrote: Humans are all too tempted to believe their own hype or the hype created around them, and when they cannot live up to it, the mental ill health seeds that they have previously sown, sprout as poisoned ivy.

If unguarded and unprocessed by the self, the need to be famous by posting ungrounded opinions can possibly lead to a psychological case.

One of the most elaborate recent investigations of fame interest was undertaken by Maltby (2010), who found that narcissism was positively correlated with Intensity (e.g., “Very little matters to me apart from being famous”) Celebrity Lifestyle (e.g., “I want to be rich”), Drive (e.g., “I work hard every day to be famous”), and Perceived Suitability (e.g., “I’ve got what it takes to be famous”).

Narcissism was associated with increased appeal of Visibility and Status, more time spent engaged in fame fantasy, and greater perceived realism of future fame. This is from the study titled “Fame and the Social Self: The need to belong, narcissism, and relatedness predict the appeal of fame” by Greenwood, Long and Dal Cin (2013).

There are things that we need to understand like our motivations of fame and power. We also have the capacity to reroute our movements since we control our own sails. If not, we might be part of the statistical data on the verge of insanity.